[wp-hackers] Plugin Site

[Rich Bowen]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Alex King wrote:

> The previous threads on this demonstrated that several plugin 
> developers felt very strongly about *not* having their downloads 
> directly linked to. Several of today's posts have said something along 
> the lines of: "The GPL means people can't stop us from mirroring their 
> plugins". This is how such a condition could quite easily arise.

Right, but what I'm saying is that it would be the authors who would
submit the stuff to the web site. If they didn't like the conditions of
the site, then they would not submit. Thus, no problem. Code that
authors did not want to be there would not be there.

> 
> --Alex
> 
> http://www.alexking.org/
> 
> 
> On Jul 16, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Alex King wrote:
> >
> >> If the authors feel an 'us vs. them' mentality about the site, I don't
> >> see the site becoming as successful as it would with their support;
> >> regardless of the legality of licensing issues.
> >
> > Presumably it would be the authors who would be submitting their code 
> > to
> > the site in the first place. I'm not sure I see how such a condition
> > could ever arise in the first place.
> 
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